A Farewell Salute to Ousmane Sembene: Distinguished Filmmaker, Author, and Activist, 1923-2007

Toward that end, Sembene followed a radical pro-independence line against what he considered to be a tendency of colonial assimilation and the promotion of Negritude, the cultural and literary movement associated with Aime Cesaire and Leopold S. Senghor. In 1951, Sembene joined the Movement Against...

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Published in:Black camera : the newsletter of the Black Film Center/Archives 2007-04, Vol.22 (1), p.27-28
Main Authors: Assensoh, A. B., Alex-Assensoh, Yvette M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cesaire, Aime (1913-2008)
Dunbar, Paul Laurence (1872-1906)
Fanon, Frantz (1925-1961)
Motion picture directors & producers
Movies
Nkrumah, Kwame (1909-72)
Novelists
Parting phrases
Politics
Postcolonial literature
Renaissance music
Said, Edward
Sembene, Ousmane (1923-2007)
Vigo, Jean
World War II
World wars
Wright, Claude
Writers
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Summary:Toward that end, Sembene followed a radical pro-independence line against what he considered to be a tendency of colonial assimilation and the promotion of Negritude, the cultural and literary movement associated with Aime Cesaire and Leopold S. Senghor. In 1951, Sembene joined the Movement Against Racism, Anti-Semitism, and for Peace (Mourap), a political organization that emerged from the French resistance movement during World War II. Said, the late Palestinian writer, believed that the terrain of art and cultural representation were, in addition to politics, a sine qua non for freedom and the regeneration of community.
ISSN:1536-3155
1947-4237